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Poll Taxes Fuel Inequality, Washington D.C., 1940

In a scathing indictment of systemic injustice, the White House Conference on Children in a Democracy has laid bare the entrenched racism that denies equal rights to minority children in the United States. The dire situation, where children of citizens from minority groups are treated as second-class citizens, is a stain on the nation’s conscience. Poll taxes, a thinly veiled attempt to disenfranchise marginalized communities, have become a tool of oppression, perpetuating inequality and stifling social mobility.

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